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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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